Adventures, Culinary and Otherwise of a New Life In a Small Town

Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Tomatoes!

I am a late comer to the cult of the tomato, I hated them when I was younger and even now its not like I’ll eat one out of hand, I need to gild them if only with a pinch of salt. This week we had our first farm-share Heirloom tomatoes and our first little ripe Sungolds popped up (or out is more accurate)…I am very excited for the tomatoes yet to come.

Omygosh it was so good, and I didn’t even make my own crust… I am ashamed to say where I got- let’s just say we had to get a bed frame there was only one place to go and while we were there we got sucked into the vortex of laziness and bought a bunch of stuff like a lamp, a mat for the kitchen, pizza dough, beer, cat litter, deli turkey, sliced cheddar cheese, and a watermelon. We felt dirty afterwards.

Went to put away my laundry and found this…

I digress… their whole wheat pizza dough was not bad..even after a couple of weeks in the freezer.I opted not to sauce the pizza because it was late and I forgot to take the sauce out of the freezer and it seemed a shame to cook down a tomato so gorgeous so ripe and still warm from the sun.

I love how it came out!

I covered with dough with a few slugs of good Olive Oil, some Chopped Garlic, Mozzerella Cheese, Cooked Sausage, Shaved Pecorino Cheese, Chopped Chiles and a wee bit of Magical Fairy Dust Fennel Powder…Set the oven on Broil and got it up to 525 (as high as it would go).

It cooked for about 10 minutes…then I piled the fresh Tomatoes, shreds of Basil and all their Juices on top. It was amazing, this will be my Pizza Method for the summer. Hmmm wonder what other combos will work…

Sure I could’ve had one of these anytime, but without the top tier A one ripe tomato, it’s just a breakfast sandwich, with it is Magic, and coupled with a good Bloody Mary, some strong Iced Coffee, a Sliced Peach..maybe a bit of Blackberry coffee cake and the Sunday NY Times… it’s the perfect late summer brunch.

We FINALLY went to the Beach on Sunday!! And of course my phone battery was dead so I took NO PICTURES— there are all from Google Image.Fort Popham- There’s nothing my Husband likes more than an old crumbly fort.It’s just not Summer without a few of these– Black Raspberry on a Sugar ConePost Beach Snacks on Sunday Night: Tomato & Mozzerella Bruschetta with Mint, Chantrelles with Butter & Thyme on Toasts, Zucchini & Red Onion Pancakes w Cucumber Yoghurt & Zhug

We have a lot going on the next couple of weeks...

Tonight

Cheeseburgers + Baked Onion Rings + Faux Fried Zucchini

Tuesday

We’re going to hang with Pretzel Logic et al and do some lake stuff like boating and swimming & grilling Have to find out what to bring but probably bring

Seriously we really are!! Remember Pinky Tuscadero? on Happy Days…she got hurt and The Fonz had to take over for her at the Demolition Derby? The one he didn’t want her to do in the first place because she could get hurt?